Middleware Job Trends in Manchester

Middleware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Middleware skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 176 145
Rank change year-on-year +34 -31 +102
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 9 7 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.38% 0.17% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 0.79% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 20
10th Percentile £56,250 £42,850 £36,270
25th Percentile £61,875 £49,750 £55,727
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% +5.00% +10.75%
75th Percentile £86,250 £69,375 £72,433
90th Percentile - £72,750 £73,875
North West median annual salary £75,000 £62,888 £59,526
% change year-on-year +19.26% +5.65% +19.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 527 887 890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 22.26% 21.78% 31.85%
Number of salaries quoted 293 511 714
10th Percentile £38,150 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £81,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Middleware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Middleware in Manchester

Middleware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Middleware in Manchester

Middleware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
1 1 (11.11%) JBoss
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) Intacct
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Workato
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Contentful
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) KDB
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Ant
2 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Java Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Support Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Applications Support
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Support Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Windows DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (44.44%) Rendezvous
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Express.js
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Jest
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Next.js
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) React Native
2 1 (11.11%) Redux
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Electronic Trading
1 4 (44.44%) Low Latency
1 4 (44.44%) SDLC
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Fintech
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
2 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Podman
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Bloomberg
1 4 (44.44%) Solace
1 4 (44.44%) TIBCO
2 2 (22.22%) Concur
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Sage
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat